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Monday, November 20, 2006

Love Birds...

Love Birds..., watercolor on paper

This is the week of the Thanksgiving bird, the BIG BIRD. Last July I was nuts for little birds, sparrows in particular. In May I found a Parisien bird to bring home - Piu Piu. So this last trip I went looking again...

Back to the MaraisPylones, to find a friend for Piu Piu in New York.. But somehow these other Piu Pius (French for tweedie Bird) didn't do it for me.

There were all manner of silly things to choose from: Bunnies, ducks, cats, elephants. But not my dream bird.

I went to the newly renovated Musée Des Arts Décoratifs. There was "my bird" on the 2nd floor amongst the vintage toys, waiting. Luckily the museum shop had a similar one called Blue Bird made in China.These two birds hit it off instantly. Piu Piu is magnetic and "Blue Bird" is tin and the rest is history. I used to collect vintage rubber duckies.

They are both beautiful! I will definitely go to that museum next time I hit Paris! I gave my oldest daughter one when she was little but I played with it. Piu Piu is lucky, well they are both lucky to have each other!

Carol,What a nice"piu-watercolour";).It has an Asiatic air(I think more Chinese than Japonaise).It´s curious how the different languages imitate animals'voices.In Spanish we say"pío-pío".I can´t remember it exactly but something has been said about which language we'd better use depending of what we´re trying to express(was said by Carlos I Spanish Emperor who speaks perfectly French,Italian,Portuguese,German,Latin,Spanish),I´ll remember it and I'll write it to you.I trust in finding more birds"flying"in your blog.

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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